Friday, 14 September 2012

Welcome to the September New Release Giveaway Hop hosted by Book Twirps and Refracted Light Reviews! The hop runs from September 15 through to September 30 2012. Up for grabs is any new paperback release this month from the Book Depository as long as they deliver to your country - find the list of countries here.

The only book I've read recently that features anything watery is Aimee Friedman's Sea Change but one of my favorites of the last few years is Elementals - Water by Peter Dickinson and Robin Mckinley, a book of six short stories featuring watery themes!

The winner will get to choose a watery themed book of their choice from the Book Depository as long as they live in a country that BD delivers too.

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine
This week's WoW is one I discovered on someone else's WoW a few weeks back - I'm ashamed to say I can't remember who! - and after reading the synopsis (and falling in love with the cover!) I promptly went off to pre-order it.

'The end of their world begins with a story.

This one.

In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn't most fairy tales.

Princess
Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own
good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her
best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar
book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being -- called the Nybbas -- imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true -- not really. But
then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient,
scarred dragon, may hold the key to the Nybbas's triumph . . . or its
demise. It all depends on how they tell the story. After all, stories
make their own rules.

Iron Hearted Violet is
a story of a princess unlike any other. It is a story of the last
dragon in existence, deathly afraid of its own reflection. Above all, it
is a story about the power of stories, our belief in them, and how one
enchanted tale changed the course of an entire kingdom.'

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week's snippet is from Masque Of The Red Death by Bethany Griffin, I'm about halfway through and really enjoying it so far but then I'm a sucker for a pretty cover and anything influenced by the great Edgar Allan Poe is always going to get read by me.

'Elliott has a small steam carriage, faster and less elaborate than April's. The seats are close together, and I'm aware of him beside me, that my bare knee is touching his leg, but as we navigate the streets I forget him and stare out at the rubble.'

Monday, 10 September 2012

Welcome to the Books to Movies Giveaway Hop hosted by I'm a Reader Not a Writer and Sweeping The USA! This hop is about books that have been made into films or tv shows, the prize on offer is a paperback copy of the book-into-film of your choice from the Book Depository if you're outside the UK, or if you live in the UK you can either win a paperback copy of the book-into-film or a DVD of your choice. All prizes are up to the value of £10/$15. You don't have to decide now, if you win you can pick then! Good luck!

It's Monday, What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what
others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next
“must read” book will come from!

Best laid plans, they never go as you think they will! Same with my reading, especially recently! Here's what I have and haven't read...

Finished

Still reading

Temporarily put down

Up next

I'm away for a few days this week and I have my 2 year old niece & nephew staying so I don't think I'm going to have much time for anything never mind reading! Hopefully Thursday a review of God Save The Queen will be up along with brief thoughts on Girl Of Nightmares, The Devouring and Masque Of The Red Death if I finish it in time! And don't forget to check back in a few hours for a new giveaway!

Sunday, 9 September 2012

IMM is hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren
and gives everyone an opportunity to showcase new books received during
the week, whether they're bought, borrowed or the dreaded download!

A super quiet week again in my mailbox! I can't seem to win, when I need to save I buy loads of books but when I'm trying to buy books I don't find anything I really want to read! Anyway, here's what I got this week.

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine

I orderd this one long before the cover was released, the author is on my 'auto-buy' list and I loved the title!

Ettiquette & Espionage - Finishing School #1
Gail Carriger
Little Brown & Company978-0316190084February 13 2012 "It's one thing to learn
to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a
knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.

Fourteen-year-old
Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more
interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper
etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs.
Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She
enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for
Young Ladies of Quality.

But little do Sophronia or her mother
know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish,
all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle
Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance,
dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine
arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries.
Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at
school." - GoodreadsThis is the US hardcover, as of yet there is no cover for the UK paperback but will post it when there is! I'm hoping it's the same gorgeous cover but as I've pre-ordered the one above it doesn't matter to me. This new series is set in the same universe as Ms. Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series but events take place 25 years before.What's your WoW this week?

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

"Being Dingo Boy was bad enough, but being naked Dingo Boy would have been much, much worse. I wouldn't have survived the jokes, can you imagine the kind of abuse I'd have copped on my first day back at school?"

Monday, 3 September 2012

It's Monday, What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what
others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next
“must read” book will come from!

This week I started a lot of books but don't seem to have finished many, oh well. Maybe next week?

Sunday, 2 September 2012

IMM is hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren and gives everyone an opportunity to showcase new books received during the week, whether they're bought, borrowed or the dreaded download!

A quiet week for me as I've been total fail in everything, I promised reviews but they're still in longhand in my notebook rather than on the computer - don't worry, they will go up! I also just want to say that I won't ever really go into personal detail about my life but I want to let you know in advance that things may be a little random around here for a while. We found out what exactly is wrong with my mother but unfortunately it's the news that nobody wants to hear and the prognosis is not good so please bear with me and I'll get things running properly soon!

Saturday, 1 September 2012

has been chosen! The person in question has been contacted and picked their book, congratulations!

Thanks to everyone who entered. Don't worry if you didn't win, I have a couple of giveaways coming up this month and IF I reach 500 followers I might just have a little giveaway for that too. All of them will be international as long as you live somewhere that the Book Depository delivers to.